Entries from March 31st, 2009

This week, Troy, Tom and Bruce devote the entire show to Demigod, the upcoming RTS from Gas Powered Games and Stardock. Bruce reaches into the past for a boardgame comparison, Tom is annoyed by everyone and Troy likes most of what he sees. Titan Listen to the podcast Here RSS here Have a question for […]

Battle Forge – The review is almost done (Fraps is not cooperating with screenshots) and I like a lot of what the game does. The gameplay is very primitive, though, in that it boils down both CCGs and RTSes to their cores, and that can be a little problematic for gamers who want a little […]

So on Tom’s recommendation in the last podcast, I picked up Rune Factory 2. He was not kidding about the slow start. You begin with a hoe, a watering can and barely enough money for seeds once you sell the herbs that are cluttering up your farmland. Swords are expensive, too. He also warned about […]

Just because my fellow podcasters hate it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy reading about it. Teuber created elaborate logic chains and probability matrices in a complex Excel spreadsheet so the videogame developers could see how every possible move and roll of the dice—from the impact of the Robber to the odds of getting wheat in […]

As always, the trick with deck building is balance. You need to have enough low power cards to get them out early and often so you aren’t outnumbered, even high power cards to go for the kill, a mix of magic and unit cards so you don’t have to rely on army maneuvers all the […]